AI WEIWEI
An exhibition at the Tate Modern which I visited last week. These sunflower seeds are actually made out of porcelain and hand painted. It's a very overwhelming exhibition, with a 100 million seeds in the Turbine Hall. My first reaction was to wish to touch them, or walk on them barefoot, I can't help but think this was the artist's wish, for the viewer to interact with the work by really feeling it. However this is not allowed any more due to health and safety issues. Anyhow it's definitely still worth going to see this work.
I don't want to give away too much about the work because I think if you're interested in seeing, watching this video http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unileverseries2010/room3.shtm will hopefully be as fascinating to you as it was for me.
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